Project Gemini archives the history of space exploration in photos

The Project Gemini Online Digital Archive was released recently by NASA, in conjunction with Arizona State University's School of Earth and Space Exploration.

What we have is a collection of high-resolution photos, which have been scanned from the original mission flight films, spanning ten missions between 1965 and '66. The one thing you can probably take note of while flicking through the photos is the beauty of it all. The photos provide an amazing insight into the history of American space exploration, you can't help but relive the fascination about the great beyond when you see the pictures. That sense of wonderment that seems to have been lost in the face of reduced government funding, the questions you always asked about what exists beyond the unknown.

NASA Approves Mission Plans To Redirect Asteroids With Robots

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Neil deGrasse Tyson Demands A #Penny4NASA To Dream For The Future

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Launched by NASA in 1984 and taking part in milestone NASA missions thereafter – including deploying the Hubble Space Telescope in April 1990, and the Upper Atmosphere Research Satellite (UARS) in September 1991 – space shuttle Discovery today makes its final flight, atop a jumbo jet on its way to its new permanent home, to its final resting place the Smithsonian Institution. Now, the National Geographic is giving an all-too rare look inside the heat-proof shell of the craft, publishing online interactive ultra-high resolution, 360-degree pictures of the retired orbiter.

Crowd-Funded Space Mission To Protect The Earth From Killer-Asteroids

Former NASA Astronauts and space scientists have announced their crowd-funded mission to map out the orbit of every potential earth-destroying asteroid, using a space telescope which will orbit around the sun.